 /*******************************************************************************
  * Copyright (c) 2007 IBM Corporation and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
  *
  * Contributors:
  * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
  ******************************************************************************/

 package org.eclipse.core.internal.databinding.conversion;

 import org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.Converter;
 import org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter;
 import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IStatus;

 /**
  * Converts an IStatus into a String. The message of the status is the returned value.
  *
  * @since 1.0
  */
 public class StatusToStringConverter extends Converter implements IConverter {
     /**
      * Constructs a new instance.
      */
     public StatusToStringConverter() {
         super(IStatus.class, String .class);
     }
     
     /* (non-Javadoc)
      * @see org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter#convert(java.lang.Object)
      */
     public Object convert(Object fromObject) {
         if (fromObject == null) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException ("Parameter 'fromObject' was null."); //$NON-NLS-1$
 }
         
         IStatus status = (IStatus) fromObject;
         return status.getMessage();
     }
 }

